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By Lauren Puckett Alexander Franz stands before a row of perforated metal boxes. He surveys each one, peering at the contents, before stepping forward and taking a box into his arms. In it is a swarm of mosquitoes – over 400 of them. At the sudden movement, they swell like a black gust of wind.…

By Lauren Puckett WASHINGTON, D.C – Colliding black holes have a heartbeat. It just took scientists 1.3 billion years to hear it. Fresh from the announcement Feb. 11 that researchers had detected gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime itself, a triumphant Gabriela González appeared at the AAAS Global Science Engagement in Washington, D.C. February 12. González, spokesperson…

By Taylor Malottki Students at Hickman High School in Columbia lobbed softball-sized oranges across the cafeteria minutes before the bell rang releasing them to class. Thanks to poor hand-eye coordination, some of the oranges ended up rolling on the floor between the tangle of students’ legs. Handfuls of celery sticks and forests of broccoli were…

BY CHRISTINE COESTER It is barely 6:30 a.m. on Friday morning and Bruce Drecktrah is on the water. He is here with two fellow snaggers, Terry Timmons and Stan Frank. They are the first of many this morning to drag fist-sized hooks through the waters of the Lake of the Ozarks, hoping to snag the American…